Vaultaccount wrote on Nov 14
th, 2019 at 6:42pm:
And the reason to quit was this, as it has been since the first time I tried to quit. The game requires too much investiment. I remember when they released the epic destinies, I thought grinding them in Rusted Blades was grind, oh boy... then I thought heroic PL's was grind when everyone was becoming a completionist... then they released EP's, and I thought that was grind... then there was slavers. But they really killed the game with reaper and racials.
And year after year they slapped us more and more on the face. The worse was the reaper crap, almost everyone rejected the trees and prefered like it was on the first Lamma version.
Now to a new player start this game just doesn't make sense. You have to pay hundreds of dollars just to have all the content/tomes/destinies/classes etc, and still suck completely compared to a vet.
As we always said, the more they went away from DnD 3.5, the worse. The majority who played before U14 prefered the game like that. And they kept moving away from it. The game became more and more about ridiculously overpowered stats and less about play, unlike pre-u14 or ever pre-u18, when my first lifer was almost as good as the next guy's completionists.
I remember someone said on the forums one day: "This game is called Dungeons and Dragons online, it was supposed to be one of the most successful MMOs ever, yet they managed to ruin it".
Pretty much all of this.
I don't mind putting in some research into my character plan, and some grind to get there, or even some money to unlock it. But I hate that they keep moving the goal posts.
I also hate the power gap even when it "benefits" me, I can't get my friends to play because they look at that gap and it feels insurmountable. That's the real reason the hard core server was so popular, there were no mega-completionists on it so the power gap was a lot smaller and people could play together.
I'm taking a break right now, too, because I'm sick of the BS. So they went from earning a little money from me to earning none at all. And actually it wasn't all that little, I bought expansions, a Kraken airship, modules, classes, etc.
This game should be printing money, but the screw ups keep getting greedy and it kills it.